New weapon turns fire ants into headless zombies

Wow wrote:

I wasn't referring to the story about the ants just the comments about how this is old news and cutting on people misspellings and attempts at humor.
I lived in Louisiana so I am well acquainted with fire ants. Since this story posted on the Monterey Herald website, this could be new news for those who have never seen a fire ant or it's hills.

RobtA wrote:

Something similar happens in our universities. The faculty plants these leftist ideas into the heads of the students. When they graduate, the students wander around aimlessly in grad school, until they become TAs and plant the ideas into the heads of more students. And, the economy suffers. But I'm not sure if newborn calves are affected.

Sol wrote:

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How about carpenter ants? Termites? 0bamites?

Little Cat wrote:

Another "B" movie plot coming out of the studios of las colinas or hollywood?
This sound like the drunken babbling of an out of work screenplay writer. And after reading the article, I wish it was.
Wasn't the Killer bee situation a botched scientific experiment about insects that got out of control by getting OUT?!? Do scientists NOT learn from their colleagues' cluster F**ks of the past? There has got to be a less aggressive way.
Doesn't really sound like something credible coming from the research of Texas A&M and UT. Now if they said the party school like Texas Tech was considering this, I could see it for a variety of reasons.
I like this in theory, effects only the fire ants. BUT not have the new WMDs start looking around for another food source when their original one goes extinct. What next would they make go extinct? Do these scientists have that in consideration?
When an indigenous and harmless species goes extinct, is that when these researchers are going to say, "OOOoooopsie!," ??? Realizing that the fire ants are already extinct and their genie refuses to get back in the bottle.

EForce wrote:

<quoted text> They did'nt fabricate these insects,just imported them where they naturally kill the fire ants. I do understand the concern though.The University of FL. cross-bred to make a fly to eat water lillies from choked water ways.It worked,but the drawback is that they engage in sex ALL THE TIME,now there's too many,and they clog car radiators/ruin paint.

BGHOZ wrote:

<quoted text>I guess that's
where the phrase 'Don't with Mother Nature'comes in...

I want to know wrote:

Interesting - think it would work on drug smugglers?

EForce wrote:

By the way,fire ant were not indigenous to North America.they were stow-a ways on banana boats.

BGHOZ wrote:

Not only that but my posts are always fagmented,when they finally do show up....

Exposethem wrote:

<quoted text> I wish it would work with the above-the-law queers on the gay postings!

fire ant wrote:

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Duh! They're not indigenous to N America? Wow, nobody knew that! Dumbass, they've slowly crept up from South America. It was YOU that fell off the banana boat.

fagmented wrote:

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FAGmented? So you're the one making all those gay posts.

Commander Bunny wrote:

<quoted text>Nice.